Politics & Economy audiobooks
Справа Бяляцкага
By: Валер Каліноўскі
Narrated by: Валер Каліноўскі
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Гэтая кніга ня столькі пра крымінальную справу № 11081100188, паводле якой Алесь Бяляцкі быў асуджаны на 4,5 года турмы, колькі пра справу ягонага жыцьця — абарону грамадзянскіх і культурных правоў чалавека. Кнігу ў pdf можна чытаць тут https://docs.rferl.org/be-BY/2013/01/18/6416447a-0fda-455d-a521-0011c20ad28a.pdf
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The Canceling of the American Mind
By: Greg Lukianoff & Rikki Schlott
Narrated by: Rikki Schlott
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A “galvanizing” (The Wall Street Journal) deep dive into cancel culture and its dangers to all Americans from the team that brought you Coddling of the American Mind.
Cancel culture is a new phenomenon, and The Canceling of the American Mind is the first book to codify it and survey its effects, including hard data and research on what cancel... Read more
Mindfulness For the Wandering Mind
By: Pandit Dasa
Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Written by a monk-turned-leadership-guru, Mindfulness For the Wandering Mind offers unique insight on how you can focus your mind, become more resilient, respond better to conflict, and build stronger professional (and personal) relationships. It's all possible when you begin to understand how your mind works and take control of this complicated... Read more
View audiobookThe Big Fail
By: Joe Nocera & Bethany McLean
Narrated by: Joe Nocera & Bethany McLean
Length: 12 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
From the collaborators behind the modern business classic All the Devils are Here comes a damning indictment of American capitalism—and the leaders that left us brutally unprepared for a global pandemic
In 2020, the novel coronavirus pandemic made it painfully clear that the U.S. could not adequately protect its citizens. Millions of Americans... Read more
Conflict
By: David Petraeus & Andrew Roberts
Narrated by: David Petraeus & Robert Fass
Length: 18 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time—collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analysis of what we must learn from the past—and... Read more
View audiobookRivals
By: Lorraine Daston
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 3 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Why is “the scientific community” so unified?
In the last 350-odd years, the international “scientific community” has come to be the bastion of consensus and concerted action, especially in the face of two global crises: disastrous climate change, and a deadly pandemic. How did “the scientific community” come into existence, and why does it... Read more
Ella persistió: Coretta Scott King
By: Kelly Starling Lyons
Narrated by: Jane Santos
Length: 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspirado en el bestseller #1 del New York Times Ella persistió de Chelsea Clinton y Alexandra Boiger, llega ahora esta serie en Chapter Books sobre mujeres que sobresalieron, lucharon y se levantaron contra viento y marea.
La activista social y líder de los derechos humanos Coretta Scott King inspiró a muchas personas alrededor del mundo con su... Read more
An Inconvenient Cop
By: Edwin Raymond & Jon Sternfeld
Narrated by: Edwin Raymond
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
FINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE
A WASHINGTON POST BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2023
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2023
“With illuminating, vivid, and meticulous prose, Edwin Raymond delivers an extraordinary exposé on policing in America . . . An essential, exceptional work.”
—Toluse Olorunnipa, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of His Name... Read more
Sedition Hunters
By: Ryan J. Reilly
Narrated by: Ryan J. Reilly
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The January 6th attack is an unprecedented crime in American history. Sprawling and openly political, it can't be handled by the traditional rules and norms of law enforcement--threatening the very idea of justice and its role in society.
The attack on the Capitol building following the 2020 election was an extraordinarily large and brazen... Read more
Das laute Schweigen des Max Grund
By: Ralf M. Ruthardt
Narrated by: Heiko Grauel
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Max Grund, ein Bürger wie du und ich, fühlt sich nicht mehr wohl im eigenen Land. Vernünftige Diskussionen, vor allem der politische Diskurs, sind in Deutschland unmöglich geworden. Zu oft werden die Menschen belehrt, was sie denken und wie sie leben sollen. Die Leute sind vorsichtig geworden. Ein falsches Wort könnte ihrer Reputation schaden.... Read more
View audiobookLeviatán
By: Thomas Hobbes
Narrated by: Artur Mas
Length: 14 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
"Leviatán" es una obra de Thomas Hobbes publicada en 1651. El nombre "Leviatán" hace referencia a un monstruo marino bíblico descrito en el libro de Job y los Salmos, y es utilizado metafóricamente para representar al poderoso Estado. La obra significó un antes y un después en la teoría política. Hobbes sostenía que el ser humano, en su estado... Read more
View audiobook2SAS
By: Gavin Mortimer
Narrated by: John Hopkins
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Bloomsbury presents 2SAS by Gavin Mortimer, read by John Hopkins.
Drawing on recently declassified files and interviews with veterans, this is a fascinating history of Bill Stirling and 2SAS – pioneering founders of modern special forces.
David Stirling is the name synonymous with the wartime SAS, but the real brains behind the operation was in... Read more
WN 62 - Erinnerungen an Omaha Beach: Normandie, 6. Juni 1944: NEUAUFLAGE
By: Hein Severloh
Narrated by: Mario Kunze
Length: 4 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Endlich wieder verfügbar! Sichern Sie sich jetzt die erschütternde Autobiografie des MG-Schützen Heinrich Severloh, die sich weltweit bereits mehr als 60.000 mal verkauft hat! D-Day, 6. Juni 1944. Mit 7.000 Schiffen und 13.000 Flugzeugen starten die Alliierten die größte Landeoperation der Menschheitsgeschichte. Strandabschnitt Omaha... Read more
View audiobookPlanes, Trains and Toilet Doors
By: Matt Chorley
Narrated by: Matt Chorley
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
‘’F *** ing brilliant. I would describe it as like a bag of political nuts – moreish and fabulously salty’ JOE LYCETT A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors is an entertaining and original romp through the highs and lows of British political history and the... Read more
View audiobookLes Paparazzis de la République
By: Renaud Revel
Narrated by: Paul GEORGES
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
La nouvelle enquête de Renaud Revel, dans les coulisses des photos qui ont marqué l'histoire de nos présidentsDans l'histoire de la Ve République, aucun président, du général de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, n'a réussi à échapper aux paparazzis. La « Cinquième » est ainsi jalonnée d'innombrables photos volées par ces chasseurs d'images.... Read more
View audiobookBedingt abwehrbereit - Deutschlands Schwäche in der Zeitenwende (Ungekürzt)
By: Carlo Masala
Narrated by: Patrick Imhof
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Deutschland hatte sich behaglich eingerichtet in der Welt der Globalisierung - einer Welt, die friedlich zusammenzuwachsen und für uns immer sicherer zu werden schien. Doch diese Welt gibt es spätestens seit dem russischen Überfall auf die Ukraine nicht mehr. Über ein Zeitenwendchen ist die deutsche Politik bisher dennoch nicht hinausgekommen.... Read more
View audiobookLast Rights
By: Professor Jeffrey B. Simon
Narrated by: Professor Jeffrey B. Simon
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Last Rights: The Fight to Save the 7th AmendmentBy: Professor Jeffrey B. Simon About the Book
Last Rights: The Fight to Save the 7th Amendment shines a bright spotlight on a grave but often overlooked effort by large corporate interests to undermine America's civil justice system and consumer rights. Trailblazing Plaintiff's lawyer, Jeffrey B.... Read more
Unter Wahnsinnigen - Abridged
By: Florian Schroeder
Narrated by: Florian Schroeder
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: Yes
UM UNS HERUM TOBT DER WAHNSiNN. ›Unter Wahnsinnigen‹ ist eine Zustandsbeschreibung unserer Zeit. Wie gerne würden wir leicht in Freund und Feind trennen, liken oder bashen. Aber so einfach ist der Mensch nicht. Schroeder folgt seinem Drang und seiner Neugier, das Böse zu verstehen. Auf dem Pfad des Bösen trifft er einen Holocaust-Leugner im... Read more
View audiobookThe Art of War
By: Lionel Giles & Sun Tzu
Narrated by: Charles Featherstone
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
There are many versions of this work in English, and it is included as a useful reflection once one has pondered Daoism’s key texts. The title is properly ‘'Sun Tzu's Military Method'. It was written at the time of the Dao and Zhuang Zi, several centuries before the Lieh Tzu. For fifteen hundred years, it was part of China’s canonical strategic... Read more
View audiobookThe Conspiracy to End America
By: Stuart Stevens
Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
“This is the first must-read of the 2024 election cycle if you want to understand the stakes.” –Nicole Wallace
A former chief Republican strategist and bestselling author of It Was All a Lie offers an ominous warning that the G.O.P. is dragging our country towards autocracy, and if we don’t wake up to the crisis in our system, 2024 may well be... Read more
Saddam's Secrets
By: Georges Hormuz Sada
Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Georges Sada was one of Saddam's top generals and foremost military advisors. A truth-teller in a government that made the truth dangerous. A devout Christian in a Muslim country. And a man who would stand up for what was right?even at the risk of his own life.In this eye-opening exposé, General Sada shares his bizarre yet amazing journey as an... Read more
View audiobookExit Wounds
By: Lanny Hunter
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Exit Wounds: A Vietnam Elegy is an intimate, boots-on-the-ground memoir that chronicles one captain’s brutal experience in the Vietnam War.On October 19, 1965, American Special Forces in Vietnam came under attack at their camp at Plei Me. This marked the first major confrontation between the North Vietnamese and US armies during the war.... Read more
View audiobookUn-Civilizing America
By: William Bonner
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 15 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover what sets a fair and just economy apart from the rest
In Un-Civilizing America: How Win-Win Deals Make Us Better, bestselling author William Bonner delivers an incisive and engrossing account of the American economy, the four simple steps to earning money the honest way, and why many choose the dishonest way instead. He also discusses... Read more
Ancient Greece
By: Nicolas Sofos
Narrated by: Telly Frias Jr
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Ancient Greece, widely recognized as the birthplace of western civilization thrived from 800 BCE to 146 BCE. It is renowned for its contributions, to domains, including literature, philosophy, politics, arts and sciences. These contributions have had an impact on societies.
The civilization was characterized by a multitude of city states with... Read more